Rescates
Encyclopedia
Rescates were maritime smugglers in the sixteenth-century Spanish Caribbean
. The term is derived from the Spanish verb rescatar, "to ransom" or "to rescue."
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
. The term is derived from the Spanish verb rescatar, "to ransom" or "to rescue."